Honorary Canadians

Honorary Canadians

This room is dedicated to the artists who, while not born here, made a meaningful mark on Canadian music. Whether they came to record, perform, collaborate, or simply found inspiration on Canadian soil, these Honorary Canadians became part of the story. Some stayed briefly, others put down roots—but all contributed to the cultural fabric in unique ways. From one-off sessions to lasting legacies, this is a salute to the outsiders who felt right at home in Canada.

Tracks

Artist Track Title
Zambonis* Cool Shots (Theme Song) To Bleed Black and Gold
Priscilla* Rollins There Goes My Baby Lover's Choice Vol. 1
Albert Jones* Hussle Disco The Facts of Life
Aarons And Ackley* Annalee ST
Tommy Makem Vancouver Vancouver b/w Better Times
Ellen McIlwaine The Last Good Man in My Life Ellen McIlwaine
Aarons And Ackley* Almost Five O'Clock You And I
Matt Lucas* Herpes Blues Matt Gets Blue
Kyiv Pops Orchestra* A Cossack Beyond the Danube Ukrainian Pops
Ellen McIlwaine I Want Whacha Got (Boston Song) Everybody Needs It
The Revelaires* Cab Driver Great Pretender b/w Cab Driver
Dils* Sound of the Rain (Le sond de la pluit) Made In Canada
Priscilla* Rollins I'm Sorry Lover's Choice Vol. 1
Buddy Knox Mary Lou ST
Zambonis* Helmet (instrumental) To Bleed Black and Gold
Kyiv Pops Orchestra* A Hanging Apple Висить Ябко Ukrainian Pops
Joe* Glazer New Democratic Party Train A Douglas For Me (picture sleeve)
Ursa Major* In My Darkest Hour ST
Ellen McIlwaine Wade in the Water Honky Tonk Angel
Nelson* Riddle Barkerville British Columbia Suite
Earl Lett (Professor Lett and Study) You're Getting Better Love Serenade
Ernie* Smith Freedom To Behold Jah
Priscilla* Rollins Feel So Good Lover's Choice Vol. 1
Loni Gamble Could it be Love ST
Shirley Granger (Shirley Fay Lewis)* I Need You Amist the Black Eyes
Rod Linnell with the Maritime All Stars Presque Isle Eighth Three Quarter Promenade // Presque Isle Eighth
Aarons And Ackley* L.A. You And I
Eddie* Murray Montreal, Canada Blues Montreal, Canada Blues b/w Stepping High Dance
Jack Millman and the Tempo Orchestra Lady's Dream And I Love Her
Nelson* Riddle Valley of the Swans British Columbia Suite
Loni Gamble Nightime Kind of Love ST
Ursa Major* Lay Me Down ST
Buddy Knox Swingin' Daddy ST (mono)
Jack Millman and the Tempo Orchestra Ill Wind And I Love Her
Ernie* Smith Ska Medley: Jamaica Ska; Humpty Dumpty; A Little More Oil; Six And Seven Books; Oh Manny Oh Skareggae
Oscar* McLollie As Long As You Care at All So Pleasing Loving You b/w As Long As You Care at All
Joe* Glazer This Land is Your Land A Douglas For Me (picture sleeve)
Jack Millman and the Tempo Orchestra And I Love Her And I Love Her
Dils* Not Worth It (Ca ne veux pas le pleine) Made In Canada
Ellen McIlwaine It's Growing Up From The Skies: The Polydor Years
Joe* Glazer Solidarity Forever A Douglas For Me (picture sleeve)
Ellen McIlwaine Weird of Hermiston Up From The Skies: The Polydor Years
Ellen McIlwaine Money Can't Save You Ellen McIlwaine
Ernie* Smith To Behold Jah To Behold Jah
Earl Lett (Professor Lett and Study) Show and Tell Love Serenade
Alpha Centauri Love is a Curse ST
Aarons And Ackley* Swanee Song ST
Ellen McIlwaine Up From the Skies Up From The Skies: The Polydor Years
Earl Lett (Professor Lett and Study) Theme from Canada Love Serenade
David Amram Your Smile On My Mind Summer Nights, Winter Rain
Ernie* Smith Freedom Street Skareggae
Jonathan Edwards How About You Sailboat
Buddy Knox Maybelline ST
Matt Lucas* I'm Movin' On The Old Man b/w I'm Movin' On
Jack Holland Waco The Eyes of a Dreamer
Ernie* Smith Money Can't Buy Life Skareggae
David Amram Song for Kenya Summer Nights, Winter Rain
Kristine Sparkle (Christine Holmes)* King of the Cops I'm a Song
David Amram The Mountain Song Summer Nights, Winter Rain
Happy Dolls Misty Blue Show Album No. 1
Jack Holland The Time Or the Place The Eyes of a Dreamer
Kyiv Pops Orchestra* Your Seduced Me Ти Ж Мене Підманула Ukrainian Pops
Albert Jones* I Feel So Good The Facts of Life
Ellen McIlwaine We The People Up From The Skies: The Polydor Years
Ellen McIlwaine Ain't No Two Ways To It (It's Love) We the People
Bluebird* Country Boy Blues Country Boy Blues b/w A Good Thing Lost
David Amram Pull My Daisy Summer Nights, Winter Rain
Kyiv Pops Orchestra* Handzya Ukrainian Pops
Tony McManus Inveran - The Devil in the Kitchen - Locheil's Away to France The Maker's Mark (The Dream Guitar Sessions)
Jack Millman and the Tempo Orchestra Am I Blue And I Love Her
Buddy Knox Long Lonely Nights ST (mono)
Ridni Naspivy Ensemble* I Loved a Widow Ukrainian Folk Dance Collection
Tony McManus The Maids of Mitchelstown The Maker's Mark (The Dream Guitar Sessions)
David Amram Summer Nights, Winter Rain Summer Nights, Winter Rain
Buddy Knox That's Why I Cry ST (mono)
Shirley Granger (Shirley Fay Lewis)* Moanin Shirley Lewis Show Band
Ellen McIlwaine Never Tell Your Mother She's Out of Tune We the People
Priscilla* Rollins Let the Good Times Roll Lover's Choice Vol. 1
Ridni Naspivy Ensemble* Halya Carries the Water Ukrainian Folk Dance Collection
Dils* Red Rockers (Les rockers rouge) Made In Canada
Nelson* Riddle Garibaldi Mountain British Columbia Suite
Nelson* Riddle Peace River British Columbia Suite
Happy Dolls Bombie Show Album No. 1
Jack Holland Roasalie The Eyes of a Dreamer
Nelson* Riddle Moving Ahead British Columbia Suite
Albert Jones* That's the Way You Lost My Love The Facts of Life
The Revelaires* She Wears My Ring You're So Wrong b/w She Wears My Ring
Ellen McIlwaine Hang On to a Dream Everybody Needs It
Ellen McIlwaine We the People We the People
Oscar* McLollie Help Me Make It Through the Night ST
Cal* Bostic Let Me Love You Introducing...
Alpha Centauri One Night at a Time ST
Ernie* Smith Bend Down Skareggae
Aarons And Ackley* Devil Song ST
Priscilla* Rollins Letter to Mommy & Daddy Lover's Choice Vol. 1
Ellen McIlwaine Say a Single Word Everybody Needs It
Kyiv Pops Orchestra* Green Rye Ukrainian Pops
Jack Millman and the Tempo Orchestra Hard Days Night And I Love Her
Ridni Naspivy Ensemble* Boots Ukrainian Folk Dance Collection
Ron Richardson Ooh Wee Babe Ooh Wee Babe // Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)

Ridni Naspivy Ensemble* - Ukrainian Folk Dance Collection

Kyiv, 🇺🇦

FEATURED

The Revelaires* - You're So Wrong b/w She Wears My Ring

Detroit, Michigan, 🇺🇸 → Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

The Revelaires* - Great Pretender b/w Cab Driver

Detroit, Michigan, 🇺🇸 → Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Matt Lucas* - Matt Gets Blue

Memphis, Tennessee, USA → London, Ontario, 🇨🇦

Ursa Major* - ST

New York, New York, U.S.A.

FEATURED

Ellen McIlwaine - Ellen McIlwaine

Nashville, Tennessee, 🇺🇸 → Kobe, Japan → Atlanta, Georgia → Greenwich Village, New York City, New York, 🇺🇸 → Montréal, Québec → Toronto, Ontario → Calgary, Alberta, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Ellen McIlwaine - Honky Tonk Angel

Nashville, Tennessee, 🇺🇸 → Kobe, Japan → Atlanta, Georgia → Greenwich Village, New York City, New York, 🇺🇸 → Montréal, Québec → Toronto, Ontario → Calgary, Alberta, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Ellen McIlwaine - Up From The Skies: The Polydor Years

Nashville, Tennessee, USA → Kobe, Japan → Atlanta, Georgia → Greenwich Village, New York City, New York, USA → Montréal, Québec → Toronto, Ontario → Calgary, Alberta, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Ellen McIlwaine - Everybody Needs It

Nashville, Tennessee, USA → Kobe, Japan → Atlanta, Georgia → Greenwich Village, New York City, New York, USA → Montréal, Québec → Toronto, Ontario → Calgary, Alberta, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Ellen McIlwaine - We the People

Nashville, Tennessee, USA → Kobe, Japan → Atlanta, Georgia → Greenwich Village, New York City, New York, USA → Montréal, Québec → Toronto, Ontario → Calgary, Alberta, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Ellen McIlwaine - Fear Itself

Nashville, Tennessee, USA → Kobe, Japan → Atlanta, Georgia → Greenwich Village, New York City, New York, USA → Montréal, Québec → Toronto, Ontario → Calgary, Alberta, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Country Mcdonald Joe* - War War War

Washington, DC, USA

FEATURED

Shirley Granger (Shirley Fay Lewis)* - Amist the Black Eyes

Sicklerville, New Jersey, 🇺🇸 → Vancouver, British Columbia, 🇨🇦 → Newton, Massachusetts, 🇺🇸

FEATURED

Shirley Granger (Shirley Fay Lewis)* - You Belong to Me b/w Respect (picture sleeve)

Sicklerville, New Jersey, 🇺🇸 → Vancouver, British Columbia, 🇨🇦 → Newton, Massachusetts, 🇺🇸

FEATURED

Shirley Granger (Shirley Fay Lewis)* - Shirley Lewis Show Band

Sicklerville, New Jersey, 🇺🇸 → Vancouver, British Columbia, 🇨🇦 → Newton, Massachusetts, 🇺🇸

FEATURED

Kristine Sparkle (Christine Holmes)* - I'm a Song

Birmingham, England, UK→Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Cal* Bostic - Introducing...

Anniston, Alabama, 🇺🇸→Port Arthur, Ontario, 🇨🇦→Erie, Pennsylvania, 🇺🇸

FEATURED

Aarons And Ackley* - ST

Portland, Oregon, 🇺🇸 (Jim Ackley); Cleveland, Ohio, 🇺🇸 (Chuck Aarons) - Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Matt Lucas* - The Old Man b/w I'm Movin' On

Memphis, Tennessee, USA → London, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Tommy Makem - Vancouver b/w Better Times

Keady, County Armagh, Northern Ireland → Dover, New Hampshire, 🇺🇸 → Vancouver, British Columbia, 🇨🇦 → Dover, New Hampshire, 🇺🇸

FEATURED

Oscar* McLollie - ST

Caldwell County, Louisiana → Los Angeles, California, 🇺🇸 → Chilliwack, British Columbia, 🇨🇦 → Oakland, California, 🇺🇸

FEATURED

Oscar* McLollie - Chilliwack Valley b/w She's a Child

Caldwell County, Louisiana → Los Angeles, California, 🇺🇸 → Chilliwack, British Columbia, 🇨🇦 → Oakland, California, 🇺🇸

FEATURED

Oscar* McLollie - So Pleasing Loving You b/w As Long As You Care at All

Caldwell County, Louisiana → Los Angeles, California, 🇺🇸 → Chilliwack, British Columbia, 🇨🇦 → Oakland, California, 🇺🇸

David Amram - Summer Nights, Winter Rain

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 🇺🇸*

FEATURED

Bluebird* - Country Boy Blues b/w A Good Thing Lost

Mercer Island, Washington, 🇺🇸

FEATURED

Loni Gamble - ST

Philadelphia, 🇺🇸 - Montréal, Québec, 🇨🇦

Dave Gordon & Kay* - I Love That Hockey Team b/w The Fiddler's Widow

Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

FEATURED

Albert Jones* - The Facts of Life

Gary, Indiana, 🇺🇸 - Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Alpha Centauri - ST

Priscilla* Rollins - Lover's Choice Vol. 1

Nassau, Bahamas - Toronto, Ontario

Ukrainian Folk Dance Collection

You're So Wrong b/w She Wears My Ring

Great Pretender b/w Cab Driver

The Revelaires (3)

The Revelaires (2)

The Revelaires

The Revelaires You're So Wrong (1)

The Revelaires Great Pre (1)

Matt Gets Blue

ST

Ursa Major - ST Side 2

Ursa Major - ST Side 1

Ursa Major - ST BACK

Ellen McIlwaine

Honky Tonk Angel

Ellen McIlwaine - Honky Tonk Angel LABEL 02

Ellen McIlwaine - Honky Tonk Angel LABEL 01

Ellen McIlwaine - Honky Tonk Angel BACK

Ellen McIlwaine

Up From The Skies: The Polydor Years

Everybody Needs It

We the People

Fear Itself

Ellen McIlwaine - Fear Itself (6)

Ellen McIlwaine - Fear Itself (5)

Ellen McIlwaine - ST (8)

Ellen McIlwaine - ST (7)

Ellen McIlwaine - ST (6)

Ellen McIlwaine - ST (4)

Ellen McIlwaine - ST (3)

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